Remembering Nicholas

July 18, 2006

Russian monarchists attend a rally marking the anniversary of Czar Nicholas II's execution in Moscow Monday. Nicholas, who abdicated in March 1917 as revolutionary fervor swept Russia, and his family were detained and in April 1918 they were sent to Yekaterinburg. Three months later, on July 17, 1918, a firing squad lined them up in the basement of a house and shot them.